C3B4Me Policy

A new semester is upon us.  I try to do one new "thing" every time I teach a class.  This summer, CTE hosted a Flip It! Workshop.  One of my take-aways was the C3B4Me Policy.  I decided to refer to it as the C3B4Me practice to avoid confusion with "real" institutional policies.  Essentially, this policy encourages students to be self-directed and reliant.  Read the article by Dr. Honeycutt, the founder of Flip It Consulting.

I plan on discussing it briefly during my first synchronous chat.  Here’s what I have posted in my classroom as an announcement:

C3B4Me Practice

Have a question?  Before emailing me, please try to locate your answer on your own by checking three different sources.  Consider contacting a classmate, reviewing the syllabus, reading the assignment directions or checking the announcements.  If you can’t locate the information you need, please feel free to contact.  I’m here to help!

If you decide to use it this semester, please share your experiences with this practice/policy.  Tried something new this semester?  We love to hear about it too!  Have a great semester!

On the search for videos

In my last two blogs, we discussed tools that we can use for creating your own videos.  This time I would like to share a few sources for videos and searching tips. The sources are primarily open educational resources (OER) that have licensing designed to make it simple for users to reuse, rework, remix and redistribute materials.  For more information, visit Creative Commons (CC) for a short video with information regarding their open licenses.

So, what are OER?  There are many definitions of OER.  In simple terms, OER are any type of resources (videos, images, tests, software, textbooks and much, much more!) that are in the public domain or licensed to permit free use and re-purposing by others.

Whew…finally, I’m onto the video sources I mentioned earlier. 

YouTube

The best way to find a video that is licensed under the Creative Commons license on YouTube is to use the CC Search tool described above in the General Search and Photo/Image Search sections. Unfortunately, YouTube does not provide a filter or advanced search capability on their home page for finding all YouTube Creative Commons licensed videos. However, http://www.youtube.com/creativecommons lets you see the most viewed and most reused Creative Commons licensed videos.

Tip:  If you are on the YouTube home page and type in your search term followed by a comma and then “creativecommons” the videos returned are CC licensed.  Also, when uploading videos, by default, the licensing is set at “Standard YouTube License”, which essentially means the creator is granting YouTube the right to broadcast the video.  See the Terms of Service (specifically, Section 6.C.) for full details.

Vimeo

Let’s you easily upload and find CC licensed videos.  This site tends to be used by businesses and organizations.

The Internet Archive has a collection of old video and movie footage.  Check out site for old cartoons, sports videos, ephermal films and news footage.

Tip:  This site allows you to download video and you burn them to a DVD or thumb drive to avoid slow internet connection (not that the internet is ever slow!).

TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. In 1984, it started out as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. The best talks and performances from TED and partners are made available to the world, for free. More videos are added on a regular basis.  All of the talks are subtitled in English, and many are subtitled in various languages. If you’re wondering, there’s an app too!

Do you have any go-to sites for videos?  Please share them with us.

Attribution:  “Video Search” in open4us.org, CC BY 4.0